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A: Sure, your bass, trout and other game fish nibble on nature’s all-natural bounty of algae, weeds, insects and worms. However, they also need supplemental nourishment, particularly if you’re growing them for sport. That’s where commercial fish food, like The Pond Guy® Game Fish Grower Fish Food, comes into play.

The Ingredient List

When choosing an over-the-counter food for your game fish, look for three vital ingredients on its label: protein, vitamin C and fish meal.

• The protein gives your fish amino acids that their bodies use to grow and repair muscles and other tissues, and reproduce and lay eggs. The protein quality and digestibility matters, as any that’s unused is excreted as waste.

• Vitamin C delivers essential antioxidants that help to fend off sickness and disease commonly found in game fish. Vitamin C also helps fish form collagen, which helps build strong bones and skin. Because fish don’t manufacture vitamin C on their own, they need it in their diets.

Don’t think we’ve forgotten about carbohydrates! While ingredients like grains do their part to bind the food’s ingredients together, they’re not essential in a fish’s diet. Most fish will get their daily dose of plant-based carbohydrates when they nosh on algae or other sub-surface vegetable matter.

Portion Control

Seeing those fish swim to the surface for food is certainly entertaining – and that enjoyment (coupled with dreams of giant fish!) might tempt you to overfeed. However, you should feed your fish an amount that they’ll consume in about 5 minutes. Any more than that turns into waste, which means more nutrients for algae.

If your pond or lake is stocked with small fish or growing fry, crush a few of the pellets into tiny bite-size pieces for them.

Along with the commercial food and foodstuffs found in the pond itself, you can also offer your fish human treats like torn-up chunks of stale bread, chopped up fruits and tiny minnows. They’ll add much-welcome variety to their diets – and help you clean out your refrigerator!

4 Responses

I have never know bass to eat pellet food!
we feed them worms, yup, live worms from a worm farm we started.
They come to the surface along with bluegill and snatch up 1 worm at a time.Really fun to watch em’.
Now bass eat other fish too. Bluegill, etc.
We keep out 5/8ac. pond loaded with fathead minnies, tadpoles, etc.
In 6 months our bass went fron 1 1/4 ” long to 9″ long.
I’m sure we have a well balanced pond.

What type of fish are you trying to feed? How big are they? If the pellets are too large you may want to break them down to encourage feeding. Once they get used to the food they will just wait for the water to soften the pellets and then eat them. Have you fed them anything else before or is this a new process? They may not yet trust that you are friendly and actually trying to feed them.

I had the same problem with my big mouth bass who would not eat the food I bought from the Pond Guy (game fish food) The food certainly was not too big for them. I threw the food right over them and the were not interested. Any suggestions?